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Caption Battle: Bittersweet Nothings...

"It's that time again..."
"To replace your Springfields with Garands?"
"To lament Final Fantasy's abbreviation for Crystal Points?"
"No... it's time for this week's caption battle!"

But first, last week's winners:

In third place, with the best cheerleading joke: Hisaishi!

Give me a K! You're doin' it wrong.

In second place, with the best up-skirt joke: xfishyx!

Ryan is displeased with his end of Miya.

And in the coveted first place, with the catchiest joke... KeenHavoc!

Anything you can do We can do legally.
Everything is more legal When you live in Japan.

As they say, the best things in life are either illegal, immoral, or fattening... moving on...

Since I have a lot of screencaps from him, we're gonna return to the resources of Desbrekomatic: Something More Moe, and use a shot from Shugo Chara! It's an older file so I may be wrong, but on the left should be Rima and on the right should be Amu; have fun with it:

You know the drill: type up the funniest, wittiest, most original caption you can think of for the screencap above in the comments below. Also, if any of you would like some tips on writing a great caption, you can find those here.

And like always, theOtaku is open to all submissions and suggestions for weekly feature content. You have a screencap you want used, you can PM me and we can do somethin' about it. So good luck, and remember: you now know that if I threaten to be late with caption battles, I'll make good on it.

theOtaku.com Anime Podcast VII - Ep. 25

I'm severely disappointed by the lack of the week's Sakura-Con coverage. All that wonderful video source material, so much content on which to comment from the letter Q to Cyclops' package... and all we got was a "good times, good times." Suddenly I wish I had a water bottle to stare at now...

Music - My Soul, Your Beats! by Lia from Angel Beats!

The following podcast may contain some coarse language that may offend some listeners. Discretion is advised.

For a link to Anime Pulse's theOtaku.com World, go here.
For a link to The Watercooler World, go here.

And finally, you can find Ichigo's travel log over at the Anime Pulse website (under the "features" tab). He's gettin' some crazy adventures over there. Go read. Right after the podcast.

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Caption Battle: Neither Bird Nor Plane...

"It's that time again..."
"To unclog the thread from the vacuum cleaner?"
"To stop hating on Darcsens?"
"No... it's time for this week's caption battle!"

But first, last time's winners:

In third place, because it's fun to pick on Ichigo: mariomario!

Even a water bottle becomes interesting after you've heard Ichigo say "good times, good times" for the millionth time.

In second place with a completely honest lesson for all... KeenHavoc!

These youths represent 3 of the known stages of being an Otaku.
First shock and denial, then angst and self-reflection, and finally acceptance.
These stages haven been known to continually repeat though multiple cycles before a midlife crisis.

And in the coveted first place of the final March Member Madness(TM) caption battle with the best one-line story: akari yasutora!

Batou is starting to feel guilty about not getting Miss Anonymous a water.

Eheh heh heh... these captions are funnier because I know them... job well done, folks.

Now that we're out of March Member Madness(TM), we'd best get back into the swing of things. And what better way than to go with our site's best screencap supplier! This week's screencap comes courtesy of Senjo no Desbreko - Moellian Chronicles, and features the series Yumeiro Patissiere. Girl up in the air is Miya Koshiro; the guys beneath her are Satou and Shiotani (though since we didn't know at the time, you may call them Ryan and Esposito if you'd like). Got it? Good. Go:

You know the drill: type up the funniest, wittiest, most original caption you can think of for the screencap above in the comments below. Also, if any of you would like some tips on writing a great caption, you can find those here.

And like always, theOtaku is open to all submissions and suggestions for weekly feature content. You have a screencap you want used, you can PM me and we can do somethin' about it. So good luck, and remember: you now know that if I threaten to be late with caption battles, I'll make good on it.

Sakura-Con 2010, Part 2: The Meet-Up!

Day late, but there was a need to add hilarious music to things. That said, here are all the videos I've cut together of the Saturday site meet-up at Sakura-Con 2010 in Seattle, Washington. It was an amazing amount of fun, many laughs were had b...

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April Member Promotions

It's time for member promotions once again. So congratulations to everyone who was promoted. Keep up the good work! Otaku Legend 7thEvaChild...

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